If you're registered for KPRI's Freequent Listener e-mails, then you received an e-mail around 9 am this morning to let you know that Pete Yorn is doing a private listener concert on November 21 at the Hard Rock downtown. If you are a diehard Yorn fan like me, this was exciting news.
When I walked to the Hard Rock a little before noon to get my ticket, to my dismay I was informed that the venue did not have them yet. When I asked if the guy would take my name since Dave and I were the 2nd and 3rd people to come in for them, he said he couldn't do that. He also said that people with passes to the cancelled Ray LaMontagne show have priority, none of which was mentioned in the e-mail.
I really do love the station, and I have a lot of friends there from back in my advertising days...friends who hooked me up with amazing opportunities, concerts, meet and greets, and the like, but this is the 4th private listener show that has had problems...
Barenaked Ladies (which I did not go to) had a line around the block when the venue was already at capacity. The station has corrected this by lessening the amount of overbooking they do.
G Love and Special Sauce...about 30 people were turned away from this show when we were told that they had to hold space for hotel guests (???) . First come, first served apparently doesn't apply to people who stay in hotels in La Jolla.
Ray LaMontagne...the venue was full, people were still waiting outside, his start time rolled around and he called in "sick".
Pete Yorn...e-mail sent with no tickets yet available at the venue.
I think someone who loves the music should be working there handling this stuff...like ME. I'd be all over it.
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